11-Jul-2016

Internet access issues
Since I have a fiber internet connection, and a subscription to a 100 Mb connection (symmetrical, so either way) it wondered me when running a speed test, it would get to just 50 – download a bit less, upload a bit more. On contact with my ISP, I checked using the supplied router (Fritz!box 7390). The laptop directly connected to this router, that one directly connected to the FPU (where fiber meets Ethernet). Here, the speed ran to a speed well over 90 Mb – either way. Connected it like the Draytek router – so with another cable, as this isn’t close to the FPU because of all connections – it still was over 90Mb. Still, the Draytek kept running at “half speed”.
The fun part is: this is a dual-WAN router. the first WAN port is 100Mb, the second can handle 1Gb. The connection was set up to use the first, so I switched to the second. It does make a difference: Speeds are now increased to about 70. A bit better, but not yet as is has to be. Of course, all other traffic may interfere, but that would have been the case with the Fritz!box as well. So there is one more test to perform: Disconnect the LAN and rerun the tests. If that closes in to 100Mb, it’s obvious that traffic to the server causes the issue. If not, it’s the router that needs another tweak. I asked Draytek what it might be, but I doubt this can be set – I didn’t see any setting that could be – except, perhaps, MTU. Set to 1442 where the max is 1496. But I cannot image that these 40 bytes make such a difference….
But it might be.
Server issue
Yesterday’s issue with the server is confirmed to be a bug, not a real surprise given the massive overhaul of the code. Mark supplied a hotfix that tackles this one and a few others. It will be installed ASAP – it might be tonight but on the other hand, it can wait a few days. It’s not that important.
Update
Done – and the configuration has been restored. Now it works again.
I also updated the email-program, but here I ran into a problem: It seems that the program is unable to open the language file, the server returns a 403-error but there is nothing wrong (it seems) with the file security…Looked into the code and found that the language file used (EN.TXT) seems to contain more, or less messages than is anticipated. Hence: mismatch. I re-installed (= upzipped) the files once more, and even without rebuilding and reinstalling, the site now starts. That is: there is a message popping up because a routine called within the Javscript cannot be found:
.soymail error
but that doesn’t stop the music. Nor do the missing header and default footer, but I had URL’s to the spamfilter. So I’d like to have them back.
Update on these
I found the reason for the missing header and footer. I forgot the configuration file, didn’t remember name or location (but given the author, it would be ‘soymail.conf’, or so. Checking on the logicals I found it, and adapted the header and footer lines.
The issue with the script is just a matter of clearing the browser’s log. I could have known that…

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